November 3, 2023
Watch: Rep. George Santos Plans to Run in 2024 Even If He Is Expelled from Congress
Emell Adolphus READ TIME: 2 MIN.
The United States will never be rid of Rep. George Santos even if we tried. In sit-down interview with CNN's Manu Raja, Santos informed the host that he plans to run again for office in 2024 even if he is expelled from Congress.
And about all those pesky lies that have plagued his past, Santos says his constituents didn't vote for him because of his biography.
Um, great?
"Nobody knew my biography. Nobody opened my biography who voted for me in the campaign," Santos told Raja. "Nobody elected me because I played volleyball or not. Nobody elected me because I graduated college or not. People elected me because I said I'd come here to fight the swamp, I'd come here to lower inflation, create more jobs, make life more affordable, and the commitment to America."
Difficult to fight the swamp when you are one of the main swamp monsters. Santos is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee, and he has pleaded not guilty to 23 federal charges, which include seven counts of wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, one count of theft of public funds and two counts of making materially false statements to the House of Representatives. Very swampy.
Another indictment filed last month revealed new details about all the ways Santos has personally positioned himself to profit from his campaign. Additionally, his former campaign treasurer Nancy Marks pleaded guilty last month to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States. In court, Marks said she and Santos "knowingly filled out federal documents with false claims and information," CNN reports.
Despite all of this, Santos seemed confident that his constituents would stand by him.
"Look, could I have won the general election last time? Nobody said I could," he said. "Elections are tricky. There's no predetermined outcome."
But New York Republicans are not standing by him and have expressed that eventually House Republicans will expel Santos after the committee releases more damaging reports.
"At the end of the day. I suspect the ethics report will prove and suggest that he is as bad as we think he is," Rep. Marc Molinaro said. "There just isn't room for that kind of nonsense here anymore."
We'll see.